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Study: African-American Tourism in SC on the Rise Since Removal of Confederate Flag
A recent study from the University of South Carolina’s Richardson Family SmartState Center of Economic Excellence in Tourism and Economic Development has found that South Carolina’s tourism industry has been booming since the removal of the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse grounds in Columbia, according to the Columbia Regional Business Report. African-American tourists generate $2.4…
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Dallas Police Believe Broncos Player Shot Himself in the Leg During Shootout
Dallas Police believe that Denver Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib may have Plaxico Burress-ed himself. On June 5, Talib was shot in the leg and reportedly told police that he was standing in a park when he was hit. According to TMZ Sports, Talib wasn’t standing in a park but was actually at V Live strip…
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Police in NC Release Full, Graphic Video of Keith Lamont Scott Shooting
Police in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., have released the full, graphic body-cam and dashcam footage of the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte last month, Reuters reports. According to the report, a lawyer for Scott’s family said that the videos do not support police claims that Scott was holding a gun at the time of his…
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Damian Marley Is Turning Calif. Prison Into Pot Farm
Damian Marley is turning a California prison that formerly housed nonviolent drug offenders into a cannabis-cultivation facility. Marley, 38, along with his business partner Ocean Grown Extracts, will be converting the 77,000-square-foot Claremont Custody Center into a farm that will grow medicinal marijuana for state dispensaries, Billboard reports. “Many people sacrificed so much for the…
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Registered Sex Offender Sues His Sexual Assault Victim for Defamation of Character
A registered sex offender who pleaded no contest to felony assault and was sentenced to a year in jail sued his victim for defamation of character in a California court. Lang Her, 26, sued Yee Xiong, 24, on the day he was sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting Xiong after a party at…
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Flint, Mich., Residents Hit With Bacterial Illness as Water Crisis Continues
Residents of Flint, Mich., have spent the last year finding creative ways to avoid using the city’s contaminated water supplies in their daily lives, but now a new threat adds an additional complication to an already frustrating situation: an outbreak of shigellosis. The New York Times reports that cases of the bacterial illness, which is…
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LAPD Releases Surveillance Video in Carnell Snell Jr. Shooting
The Los Angeles Police Department released surveillance video Tuesday that shows the moments before police shot and killed an 18-year-old teen in South Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. The 45-second clip, which the LAPD posted to its YouTube channel, shows a suspect reported to be Carnell Snell Jr. in a shopping center. The young man…
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NYC Couple Slashes Man on Subway Platform
A 21-year-old man was slashed in the head, chest and hands after getting into an argument with a man and woman inside the Prospect Park subway station in Brooklyn, N.Y., the New York Daily News reports. According to officials, the 21-year-old victim was attacked around 5:15 a.m. Sunday when the man punched him in the face, and…